Hello I'm Doctor_Rex I'm the OP of this post:
My Windows 10 install broke, but I'm hesitant to switch to Linux.
I'd like to start by thanking everybody who responded to my questions. Your answers have helped a lot when it came to my worries on switching to Linux.
I've taken in a lot of your recommendations: Fedora, Fedora Kinoite, Nobara, Bazzite Linux, VanillaOS,
I've decided on Fedora Kinoite, as it has everything I want from a distro.
It was very kind of you all to answer my questions but after making that post and reading your answers new questions propped up.
These questions are a little more opinionated than the last ones, and a little better thought out, but please take some time to answer them.
Questions:
- Is Wayland worth using? Especially when you consider all the issues that may come from using an NVIDIA card.
Are there any real noticeable advantages/improvements to using Wayland over Xorg.
- Does bloat actually matter or is it just a meme?
Does bloat actually have a noticeable negative impact on your system or are people just over reacting/joking.
- What are some habits I should practice in order to keep my system organized and manageable?
Any habits or standards that I should abide by in order to save myself headaches in the future?
- Any other resources besides the Arch Wiki that I should be aware of?
Self explanatory.
- What do you wish you knew when you first started using Linux that would have saved you a headache in the future?
I'm not referring to some skill but instead something pertaining to Linux itself. Feel free to skip this question.
I'll be going to sleep soon, so apologies if I don't reply but please take a moment answer any questions you think you can.
Thank You!
Edit: ~~AUR~~ = Arch Wiki. Fixed a typo
on wayland vs Xorg.
i've found a few things that demand it (e.g. Waydroid - an android emulator)
So I've started using KDE plasma recently (previously I was XFCE due to speed and lightweightness).
KDE plasma gives a choice of wayland or xorg on the gui login screen,
Assuming the K in kinote stands for KDE plasma, becuase that's how these things go - then you should be abe to choose - so you don't need worry about wayland, just log back in and pick the one you need, or the one that works for the task at hand.
Kinoite is the KDE plasma version of the Fedora atomic (previously known as immutable) spins yeah. However, as far as I've heard Fedora KDE is explicitly removing Xorg support in Fedora 40, due for release this spring.
Right now the latest release is 39 which still supports both, and for me personally when I still had an Nvidia card up until right after the 545 driver release in October, Wayland (in both GNOME and KDE) was too buggy for me to use it as a daily driver, since Xwayland apps kept displaying previous frames, as if the application was time-jumping in random parts of it.
Speaking of Nvidia, I wouldn't recommend going with Kinoite directly since AFAIK it doesn't have the Nvidia drivers built in, rather I'd go with the KDE version of Universal Blue since all of their images have a dedicated Nvidia image that has the driver built in, so that you don't have to mess around to get it up and running. It's effectively Kinoite, with a few extra nice things baked-in on top.